Edwin layton



Na. 751,082. PATENTBD FEB. 2, 1904. ELEYTON.

PBOPELLING AND STEERING APPARATUS. FOR BALLOONS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 29, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented February 2, 1904;.

PATENT OFFICE.

PROPELLING AND STEERING APPARATUS FOR. BALLOONS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 751,082, dated February2, 1904. Application fil d June 29, 1903- Serial No. 163,633. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN LAYTON, a citi zen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Lepes-utza, Haus Baruch, Gyula-Fehervar,Austria-Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPropelling and Steering Apparatus for Balloons; and I do hereby declarethe following to be afull, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a propelling and steering apparatus forballoons which is easily managed and enables the direction of theballoon to be altered as required and in case of necessity very quickly.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the balloon,and Fig. 2 a plan of the car. I

In order that the balloon may not be unnecessarily weighted by thepropelling and steering device, but all actions requisite for thepropulsion and steering be effected with the simplest possible means,and consequently the management of the balloon be made quite easy, themotor I), which directly aotuates the screwshaft a, is pivoted outsidethe back part of the car 61 to oscillate horizontally around the shaftg, so that by suitably turning the motor about its pivots thedriving-screw it can be adjusted at an angle in relation to thedirection in which the balloon may be traveling, and thus besimultaneously employed for steering purposes.

The rotary motion of the motor I) is eifected through the medium of thehand-wheel 70, provided in the front part of the car, the shaft of thiswheel carrying a chain-wheel m, which is connected through the chain awith a chainwheel m on the shaft 9, so that the motor is readily turnedon its pivots, turning the propeller to the right or left to eflect thesteering-vanes p on the sides of the car d. These vanes are pivoted at 0and so connected with the screw-shaft a by means of rods 'y that whenthe sorew-shaft is subjected to lateral displacement the correspondingsteering-vane is moved outward from the car (Z, Fig. 2, and therebysuitable resistance presented to the wind on that side. In order thatthe opposite vane may retain its position when the other is displaced,the rods y are connected, by means of slotted guides, with thesteeringvanes 12.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is

A propelling and steering device for balloons, comprising rotarypropeller-blades, a.

motor mounted outside the car and acting directly on thepropeller-shaft, vertical pivots about which the motor and propeller aremounted to turn horizontally to effect the steering, means foroscillating the motor with the said pivots, vanes pivoted on oppositesides of the car, and rods connecting the vanes With the propeller-shaftand adapted to operate the vanes to assist in steering the balloon,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of twowitnesses.

EDWIN LAYTON. Witnesses:

GUSTAV SINGERHEUT, FRANK DYER CHESTER.

